Skype down. Again. [Updated]

Yes, it seems that Skype is down yet again. Users are reporting apps crashing, and those who can get connected don’t seem able to be able to send messages successfully to the few people they see as online.

The cause of this latest outage for the VoIP service is as-yet unknown but we’re investigating. It’s just two weeks since a major outage forced users to apply a fix to their apps in order to get up and running again. It doesn’t appear that this fix works this time.

A configuration problem has meant that some of you have been disconnected from Skype.

We’ve identified the cause of the problem, and have begun to address it. If you’ve been affected, you should start to see improvement in the next hour or so. You shouldn’t need to manually sign back in to Skype – it should reconnect automatically when it’s able to do so.

We apologise for the disruption to your conversations.

Update 3:

Another update from Skype states that things are beginning to return to normal:

We are continuing to address today’s problems, and are seeing indications that the situation is improving.

If you were disconnected from Skype earlier, you shouldn’t need to manually sign back in to Skype – it should reconnect automatically when it’s able to do so.

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